Recently, we discussed how we can use Windows Movie Maker as a video cutter to separate out segments from videos easily. I agree the process to cut videos is very simple, but if you are looking for an even easier way to cut out small video segments and are an ardent VLC media player fan then you could do use it as a video cutting tool too.
One more advantage of using VLC is that people who use other operating systems like Ubuntu, Fedora or Mac and hence cannot use the Windows Movie Maker, can also use the cross-platform VLC to cut out video clips.
You must download and install the latest version of VLC media player if you don’t have it already. VLC is an excellent player that plays most of the multimedia files as well as video discs and various streaming protocols.
Important Note: We have written an amazing guide on VLC called The Ultimate Guide to VLC Media Player. It’s available as a beautiful page as well as a downloadable ebook. And it includes this how-to on using VLC as a video cutting tool as well. So make sure you check that out.
Once you have installed VLC, just follow these simple steps:
Step 1: Launch VLC media player and activate Advanced controls located under the View menu.
Step 2: As soon as you activate the advanced controls you will see four extra buttons above the normal play/pause button. We will use the first button from the left called the record button. Once you have these controls activated add your video. You can use Open File located under the Media menu, but as you know I always prefer drag and drop method.
Step 3: Basically we will not be cutting the video here; we will rather play the video and record the segment using the built-in VLC decoder. So seek to the position you want to start your recording and press both play and record button simultaneously.
Tip: You can use the Frame by frame button (the last button from the left in advance control) to navigate to the exact frame you want to start recording.
Step 4: Again press the Record button when you want to stop the recording. The clip will be automatically saved as an MP4 media file type in your Libraries/Videos folder in Windows 7. I am not sure about Windows XP but you can search for it in either My Documents or My Videos. Similar for the other operating systems.
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My Verdict
The above trick is amazing but the only downside is that the player records the video frame by frame and thus it’s suitable only for small cuts. You will have to sit and watch the video while VLC is recording in the background, so be sure to make it small.
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I use the
vlc-qt lib
and try to access the frames per second information of an openend video file. The player:
the player has a public function
playbackRate()
but it gives only the current playback ration, so it is 1 if no slowmotion is applied.I also tried to get it over the codec, but the codec itself is not a class but only an enum with possible codecnames.
How can I access the fps, so get back something like 30 frames per second?
Paul SPaul S
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Using python vlc.py:
Where self.player is:
Where self.player is:
It has a function
get_fps()
EDIT:Having dug deeper, there appears to be no reference to
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in the vlc-qt sources, except where it offers fps as an experimental input to the Media::duplicate
and Media::record
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There is a frame-by-frame playback on VLC (E key or view > advanced controls), which is very useful; but there is no way to use it backwards.
This is a long-time requested feature (at least since 2015); and I was wondering if it was part of VLC 3.0.
Does anyone know ?
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gordiegordie
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The VLC help says : 'Unfortunately, VLC doesn’t support frame-stepping backwards; it’s only possible to move forward'.
Other players may have a limited support for backward playing.This would be somewhat slow, because video files are usually constructed withthe occasional full frame, while in-between frames only contain the difference.Backward stepping would involve going back to the last full frame andthen forward to the requested frame.
I found two posts that relate to your request :
These posts contain links to various players that are said to be ableto step backward, but VLC is not one of them.You will need to test and see.
Because product recommendations are not allowed on our site,I cannot list these players here.
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Using a wrapper for VLC named Vlc.DotNet, I was able to write my own video player with the buttons and controls displayed just how I like it.
It calls the frame forward function, but I wrote my own method in my program to step backwards in the position in the video approximately one frame based on the number of frames per second of the media that is playing.
It does not work all the time. Sometimes, when you click the back frame button, nothing happens in the video. I am guessing that it has to do with Mokubai's comment above. BUT, it works most of the time, if you are trying to get to a particular frame.
If I may brag a little, I have buttons for jumping forward and backwards a configurable number of seconds. I have enhanced rate of playback controls that let you halve or double your speed as well as finer controls that can change the rate by a small amount and a numeric box to enter the rate you want. In addition, I have an enhanced time slider that lets you issue keyboard sequences to hop to any spot in the video by percentage by hitting 1-9 (10%-90%). I just like to make it how I like it!
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If you're like me, you enjoy doing things faster. Using keyboard shortcuts can help you spend less time looking for buttons or menus, and more time enjoying music and videos. So take a moment to become a more efficient by reading over these VLC shortcuts:
Space: toggle pause/play
F: toggle full-screen (you can also use Esc to leave full-screen mode)
Z: change zoom mode
Ctrl + Up / Down: Adjust volume up/down (you can also use mouse scroll wheel for this)
M: toggle mute
T: display time remaining/elapsed
+ / -: play media faster/slower
Frame By Frame Windows 10
S: stop play
Ctrl + H: toggle control display
E: watch video frame by frame
V: toggle subtitles
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